A mole dropped on my head today

[giropaul]

As it says. I was pootling along a lane, under a couple of trees, and a mole struck me on the head (no, I didn't have a helmet on, falling wildlife isn't common around here).

I think that the clue to the explanation was a noisily flapping away buzzard. I must have disturbed it.

I always understood that moles were especially nasty tasting - maybe that was the reason as well?

[Kim]

Maybe it wanted to be a dropbear?   

[spindrift]

OT, sorry, there was a Golden Eagle in Hackney!

http://www.hackneygazette.co.uk/news/bird_of_prey_spotted_in_hackney_town_centre_1_1484986

[spesh]

Thread title of the year.

[Wowbagger]

Did the mole survive its ordeal?

[giropaul]

Did the mole survive its ordeal?

No, it was very dead - Buzzard or drop I don't know. I left it there for the Buzzard to return to - I thought that the chances of another 50 or so similar occurences happening so that a waistcoat might be a reasonable possibility were slight at best.

[ferret]

I have noticed rather a lot of moles above ground this summer, I wonder if it's linked to the weather, with so much rain the ground is waterlogged 

[a lower gear]

Only mole I've ever seen was walking over upland pasture in the Yorkshire Dales. On detecting us it began to tunnel downwards at about 45 deg - it literally melted through the turf in seconds and disappeared. I stoked its fur once before it disappeared and gave its tail a friendly tweak. 

[Wowbagger]

Only mole I've ever seen was walking over upland pasture in the Yorkshire Dales. On detecting us it began to tunnel downwards at about 45 deg - it literally melted through the turf in seconds and disappeared. I stoked its fur once before it disappeared and gave its tail a friendly tweak. 

Sounds like molestation to me.

[Tigerrr]

To add to the thread, a lady I worked with was walking along the street in Caracas when a huge rat dropped on her head.  Like your mole it was dead, but in this case had dropped from an underpass roof where it had been presumably lodged dead.
I myself have never had a rodent land on my head although I have seen many on the ground which might have dropped there - hard to tell.
I once lay on the grass at a rock festival watching gulls flying overhead, somewhat dazed by substance abuse. A lone gull soared like Jonathan Livingstone Seagull I thought.
A moment later I was liberally splattered with about a pint of  the most foul rotting fish stinking gull shit, which must have been released just as I started watching the lovely creature. I had to chuck my clothes in a bin and wore a binbag for the next 24 hrs.
Nature can fall on one at any time.

[drossall]

I have noticed rather a lot of moles above ground this summer...

Yes, but the point of this thread is how far above ground?

[Tigerrr]

I have noticed rather a lot of moles above ground this summer...

Yes, but the point of this thread is how far above ground?

[ferret]

 

[mattc]

Aha - I wondered what situation that picture was for!

[mcshroom]

Aha - I wondered what situation that picture was for!

It's for when moles are at eye height

[Peter]

To add to the thread, a lady I worked with was walking along the street in Caracas when a huge rat dropped on her head.  Like your mole it was dead, but in this case had dropped from an underpass roof where it had been presumably lodged dead.
I myself have never had a rodent land on my head although I have seen many on the ground which might have dropped there - hard to tell.
I once lay on the grass at a rock festival watching gulls flying overhead, somewhat dazed by substance abuse. A lone gull soared like Jonathan Livingstone Seagull I thought.
A moment later I was liberally splattered with about a pint of  the most foul rotting fish stinking gull shit, which must have been released just as I started watching the lovely creature. I had to chuck my clothes in a bin and wore a binbag for the next 24 hrs.
Nature can fall on one at any time.

Keep clear of herons, then!  Have you ever seen one of them jettison?  It's astonishing.